Comment by turk73

We have tons of Functional code and it's growing every day. What is hard is hiring developers who have a decent background in it because there are so many maintenance and legacy systems out there and so many lazy developers who aren't staying current.

I will tell you, I typically don't hire a Java developer who hasn't done any streams programming at the very least. And that's not even really FP, but if someone can't understand immutability, lambdas, predicates, functions as first class objects, and how to solve coding problems in this fashion, then they're of little use because we're working with frameworks now that assume you know all this.

People get very upset when you tell them that the OOP patterns they learned are less useful these days.